Scope
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Network (SDN) have changed the networking industry dramatically. NFV virtualizes network services by utilizing virtualization technologies to reduce the dependency on underlying hardware. NFV provides many benefits such as faster service enablement, ease of resource management and lower OPEX and CAPEX. SDN separates the control functions from the underlying physical network by decoupling the control and data planes. SDN provides many benefits such as reduced costs, ease of deployment and management, better scalability, availability, flexibility and fine-grain control of traffic and security. Like traditional networks, they are subject to various security threats and attacks. In this workshop, we invite high-quality submissions in the areas of NFV and SDN security and other related areas. Submitted papers should highlight methods and approaches that can be used to analyse the security risks and requirements, threats and techniques related to NFV and SDN and to provide novel methods and approaches to assure security in NFV and SDN.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following areas:

Security, reliability and privacy through SDN and NFV in 5G networks

Management and orchestration of NFV and SDN elements for security

Secure design of NFV and SDN solutions, security enablers

Security threats and vulnerabilities introduced by NFV and SDN technologies

Threat detection and mitigation through SDN and NFV

Security policy specification and management in SDN and NFV systems

Security related monitoring and analytics in SDN and NFV solutions

5G security architecture, trust and confidence

Authentication, authorization and Accounting in SDN

Security of applying SDN to wireless and mobile network

Security of applying NFV and SDN to IoT

Security of applying NFV and SDN to cloud computing

Security of SDN API

Risk and compliance issues in SDN

Securing SDN infrastructure

Security architecture for SDN

Security standard of SDN

Security of SDN data plane

Security of SDN control plane

Security of SDN application plane

Security of Routing in SDN

Security of network slicing

Security as a service for SDN

The workshop deadlines:

Paper Submission: June 30, 2017

Notification of Acceptance: July 15, 2017

Camera Ready Submission: September 15, 2017

Submission
Paper submissions will be handled on-line through the EDAS system. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. The manuscripts must be prepared in English, following IEEE two-column Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings with a maximum length of six (6) printed pages (10-point font), including figures. You can find the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at http://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/. To be published in the Workshop Proceedings and to be eligible for publication in IEEE Xplore, at least one author of an accepted paper is required to register and present the paper at the workshop. The IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (including its removal from IEEE Explore) if the paper is not presented at the conference. Papers are reviewed on the basis that they do not contain plagiarized material and have not been submitted to any other conference at the same time (double submission). These matters are taken very seriously and the IEEE Communications Society will take action against any author who engages in either practice.

Workshop Chairs

Eleni Trouva, NCSR Demokritos, Greece

Shao Ying Zhu, University of Derby,UK

George Gardikis, Space Hellas, Greece

Collin Allison, University of St Andrews,UK

Linas Maknavicius, Nokia Bell Labs, France

Technical Program Committee (TPC)

Harilaos Koumaras - NCSR Demokritos, Greece

Muhammad Shuaib Siddiqui - i2CAT, Spain

Ludovic Jacquin - Hewlett Packard Labs, UK

Nicolae Paladi, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden

Augusto Ciuffoletti - University of Pisa, Italy

Carolina Canales - Ericsson, Spain

Michail-Alexandros Kourtis - NCSR Demokritos, Greece

Marco Anisetti - University of Milan, ItalyMarco Anisetti - University of Milan, Italy

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